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G. A. WHITE. BUNDLING MACHINE.

No. 283,049. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

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R m H0 HA Np. 283,049. Patented Aug. 14, 1883.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

GEORGE A. WHITE, OF Bos'ron, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUNDLING-MAC-HlNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,049, dated August 14, 1883. Application filed April 23, 1883. (l To model.) i

To @ZZ whom: it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. WnrrE, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Boston,

. in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bundling-Machines; and I do hereby declare that the same are fully described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in bundling-machines particularly designed and adapted for clamping and holding together soles or heel-lifts while in the act of tying or Wiring them together, although the invention is also useful for bundling other articles, as

may be desired.

The invention is fully represented in the ac companying drawings, where- Figure 1 representsa perspective View of the machine while in use.

. may be desired. To the top of the frame a is secured the work-supporting. piece B, which is preferably made of metal and cast in one single piece, and is composed of the front supports, I) 1), divided by means of the cut-away channel or opening Z), as shown, and the rear support, 1), divided from the front supports, 1) b, by means of the channel or opening I), as shown.

Through the front supports, 1) b, are made two vertical perforations, in which the press ure-rods c c are guided as they are moved up and down. Thelower ends of said rods 0 c are secured by means of adjustable nuts 0. cto the cross-bar d, to which is jointed the upper end of the link (1, the lower end of which is hinged to the foot-treadle lever e, as shown in Fig. 3. l

The treadle-lever e is hinged in its rear end at e to the supporting-frame a, is and has in its, forward end a suitable plate or treadle, e", 011 which the operator presses his foot, so as to draw the rods 6 c downward, and causing their upper curved ends, 0' c, to press downward on Fig. 2 represents 1 a front elevation of the machine, shown partly g is a guide-piece, with its base adjustable to or from the front supports, 6 b, for which purpose its base 9 is provided with a slot,

through which passes the set-screw h, the lower end of which is screwed into the top of the rear support, b, and provided with a suitable handle or lever, h,hinged to its head, as shown.

in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, by which said screw may be easily manipulated to secure andrelease the guide-piece g. i

z is a coiled spring, one end of which is fast ened to the guide-plate g and the other end to an extension or arm, 6 on the rear sup port, I), which serves toautomatically draw the guide-piece g backward away from the pile O as soon as the set-screw h is loosened. The bottom of the plate 9 is provided with a guide projection, adapted to be guided and to move in a corresponding groove in the top of the rear support, I).

The operation of the machine is as follows: The guide is drawn forward as far as its slot 9 will permit, and then secured in place by tightening the set-screw h by meansof its handle i A pile of soles or heel-lifts O is then placed on top of the front supports, b b, and

the forward ends of such soles ,or heel-lifts pushed up againstthe guide 9, after which the operator presses down on the treadle e, causing the curved ends or feet 0 c of the pressurerods c c to press downward 'on the top of the pile 0, so as to hold the different layers in close contact with each other, and the feet 0 c are retained in such position by locking the treadledever 6 into one of the teeth of the locking-bar f, as shown in Fig. 1. I now release the screw h by turning the handle h, when the guide g is drawn backward away from the rear end of the pile O by the influence of the spring t, when the pile is in a condition tobe bundled bypassing awire or twine,

7c, crosswise around said pile, such wire or twine being first passed through channel b and afterward in a longitudinal direction n11- der the pile through channel b, then up at the front end and between the feet 0 0 on top of the pile, where it is united to the first-named cross-laid wire or twine, by which the pile is firmly united together, after which thetreadlelever e is released from the toothed lockingbar f and the pressure-rods c 0 caused to move automatically upward by the influence of the spring Z, one end of which is secured to the treadle-lever e and the other end to a suitable part of the frame or support a, and in this manner the pressure-feet c 0 are lifted above the pile 0, after which the latter may be removed and another pile put in its place to be bundled or tied or wired as above set forth, and so on.

Flat or elliptic springs or weights may be substituted for the coiled springs i and Zwithout departing from the essence of my l11V8l1 tion.

GEORGE A. VVHITE'.

Witnesses: v ALBAN A'Nnm'm,

HENRY CHADBOURN. 

